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DOI	10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105904
	The efficacy of species-area relationship to indicate fragmentation effects varies with grain size and with heterogeneity
	Giladi, Itamar 1; Ziv, Yaron 2
通讯作者	Giladi, Itamar
来源期刊	ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
ISSN	1470-160X
EISSN	1872-7034
出版年	2020
卷号	110
英文摘要	Island species-area relationships (ISAR), relating fragment area with fragment-level species richness, and 'species density'-area relationships (D-SAR), relating fragment area with the number of species within a standardized sampling area (species density), are both commonly used as indicators of fragmentation effects on diversity. While numerous mechanisms underlie a positive ISAR, only a small subset of these underlies a positive D-SAR; thus, a positive D-SAR can be used as an indicator for the action of these particular mechanisms. Most frequently, a positive D-SAR is interpreted as a support for the habitat heterogeneity hypothesis of ISAR, which relates species richness with habitat heterogeneity. In this study, we examine two often-neglected aspects concerning the application of D-SAR as an indicator for fragmentation effects. First, the detection of a significant D-SAR, and thus its usefulness as an indicator for some underlying mechanisms, is grain-size dependent. Second, the derivation of D-SAR as an indicator of habitat heterogeneity is often implicitly based on a seldom tested assumption of a parallel within-island species-area relationship. We used a grain size-dependent hierarchical uniform sampling of plant species density and species richness in a fragmented semi-arid agroecosystem to address the following questions: a) Can fine-scale heterogeneity account for D-SAR in Mediterranean plant communities?; b) Do the detection of a significant D-SAR and its slope vary with grain size?; and c) Do within-fragment SARs have uniform slope or does the slope vary with fragment size? In a system of fragments with a relatively uniform habitat, we found a significant SAR, but a non-significant D-SAR regardless of the grain size, which varied from 0.0625 m(2) to 225 m(2). These results contrast with those from a heterogeneous fragmented system where both SAR and D-SAR were significant and where D-SAR was grain size-dependent. We also found that the slope of within-fragment SAR decreased with fragment size, in contradiction to their frequent depiction in the literature as being parallel. Our study supports the notion that D-SAR is mainly generated by the processes considered by the habitat heterogeneity hypothesis. Furthermore, it provides evidence that habitat heterogeneity may account for significant D-SAR even when within-fragment SAR do not share a common slope. Our study emphasizes the need for clarity in matching theoretical prediction with actual empirical measures, while studying fragmentation effects on biodiversity.
英文关键词	Habitat fragmentation Scale-dependence Species density Spill-over effect
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Israel
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000507381800066
WOS关键词	ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY ; ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY ; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION ; SPATIAL SCALE ; ECHO PATTERN ; DIVERSITY ; RICHNESS ; LANDSCAPE ; BIODIVERSITY ; CURVES
WOS类目	Biodiversity Conservation ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Biodiversity & Conservation ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
来源机构	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/314345
作者单位	1.Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Jacob Blaustein Inst Desert Res, Mitrani Dept Desert Ecol, IL-84990 Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel; 2.Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Life Sci, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Giladi, Itamar,Ziv, Yaron. The efficacy of species-area relationship to indicate fragmentation effects varies with grain size and with heterogeneity[J]. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,2020,110.
APA	Giladi, Itamar,&Ziv, Yaron.(2020).The efficacy of species-area relationship to indicate fragmentation effects varies with grain size and with heterogeneity.ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS,110.
MLA	Giladi, Itamar,et al."The efficacy of species-area relationship to indicate fragmentation effects varies with grain size and with heterogeneity".ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 110(2020).